As Thoreau said, “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”

I think we can afford to leave these little critters alone.

I can finally try out my great aunt’s recipe for polenta-stuff pygmy tarsier.

awwwww….

I think you must be thinking of one of the other Tarsiers. The A&M article states that this is the first time they’ve been seen alive in 85 years.

And I’m with markfrei – they’re adorable!

I bet they’re a lot like dormice, and thus should be treated like them. The Romans gave us a couple suggestions for how to serve dormice.

Baked dormice from one source: “Stuff the dormice with minced pork or the meat of other dormice chopped up with herbs, pepper and pine nuts. Sew up the dormice and cook in a small oven.”

Petronius talks about them . . . ” dipped in honey and rolled in poppy seed.”

So I’m thinking all I really need, for my life to be complete, is a quick trip to Indonesia with some poppy seeds and honey, and maybe some pinenuts in case I feel like baking them.

Oh, and a fool-proof escape plan afte the world figures out that I’ve eaten the last pygmy tarsiers on our planet.

-abs thinks it’s good to have dreams, though he’ll admit that his dream of eating a species into extinction is neither practical nor a particularly good idea . .. . . but damn baked pygmy tarsier sounds tasty.. . .. .